Hello
Does anyone know if it is possible to display some folders containing pictures as list instead of folders ? In fact, im watching my personal family pics with PlexConnect. All my folders stored on a NAS are named with dates and place. But PlexConnect shows only the folders, without name and titles… It should be good if we can have the same type of display than the movies (list/grid).
Thank you
Not at the moment, this is a problem I’m still looking into solving. It’s annoying that the atv’s media browser page can’t display titles under items so you can see the folder names.
Perhaps a temporary solution is possible? For example generate the folder name as the folder image?
I'd rather see any name than a picture
I had actually thought of overlaying the title on top of the folder images when it's served up to the ATV, just haven't had time to play around with it yet.
Can't we use some kind of the "directory" XML template for these? Those are good at displaying folder titles...
We could, the problem is that there are a few different situations to handle:-
1. Directories that contain nothing but pictures and need to use the media browser view.
2. Directories that contain nothing but sub directories and can be displayed using the "directory" list view.
3. Directories that contain both sub directories and pictures -- Which view to use????
I need to spend some more time thinking of the best way to handle this and what ever I come up with also has to work with iPhotos.
Option 1 and 2 are solved in itself.
3 - step A. disregard the photos, use the directory view and add a "LOCAL PHOTOS" tag. Leading to step B. ignoring the directories, pushing the photos to the media viewer.
Might be possible...
Yep, that's what I was thinking of as well, that's the way the native homesharing photo section works.
New sub directory list view has been added to the photo sections, please grab the latest commit and test it out, thanks.
Wow so great ! But where can we grab it ?
GITHUB - same place you always grab new code from.
Thank you very much for a so quick change !
Just 1 thing : could you advise which file has been modified ? Because I’m using a older version of PlexConnect - which is more reactive on my ATV - and I have also installed some plug ins like NaviExtreme. I dont want to replace all files.
Also, 1 more comment : the delay to get access to the pictures is quite long (a couple of seconds), and also, the pictures are not displayed in full screen.
Thanks so much !
>> which is more reactive on my ATV
Huh? How is that? Which Version? What happened that you feel, the newer ones would be "less snappy"?
>> installed some plug ins like NaviExtreme
Plugins are installed in PMS (PlexMediaServer). There is no plugin API in PlexConnect - well, not that I know of one. And I guess, I should. :-D
So changing anything PlexConnect should not affect your installed plugins.
Yes 
im using a version dated from mid june which is actually very fast. I have stuck NaviExtreme in it and works quite well .
I think the main issue is probably not speed, but the fact that NaviX does not work with the more recent versions of Plexconnect because of the RTMP issue, discussed ad nauseum (by me).
Yes (I’m really not expert. Just a normal grateful user who enjoy PlexConnect every day :-)). Then for the time being, i need to use a old version because NaviExtreme is really important TV to use some TV channels.
Then again, could you just advise which modified file I must replace to enjoy the picture folders as list ?
Thanks so much
I don't know about the details of Roidy's changes. But you should be able to look up his recent commits on github and find the changed files...
I got a look. So many files changes since yesterday :-((
1 xml file changed - Photo.xml
1 new xml file - Photo_Browser.xml
2 lines of code added to XMLConverter.py lines 260 and 261
Feel free to make these changes to the version of PlexConnect you're using but I'm sorry I wont provide any support for code added to older versions of PlexConnect as it's going to start to get to complicated and become too much work keeping track of who's running what :(
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